Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which he had done in his creation.
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Genesis 1:31God saw everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good. This was evening and morning, the sixth day.
Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart to me.
Exodus 31:13“Tell the Israelites: 'You must certainly keep Yahweh's Sabbath days, for these will be a sign between him and you throughout your people's generations so that you may know that he is Yahweh, who sets you apart for himself.
Exodus 35:2On six days work may be done, but for you, the seventh day must be a holy day, a Sabbath day of complete rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
Leviticus 25:2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land that I give you, then the land must be made to keep a Sabbath for Yahweh.
Nehemiah 9:14You made your holy Sabbath known to them, and you gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:2-4
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, v. 1, 2 . Here observe, 1. The creatures made… Read the whole commentary →